How about laying in your bunk and have an airplane land on the steel ceiling about 18” above your head, dragging a steel hook until it grabs a cable and then hearing the cable being dragged across your ceiling to its original position. Repeat approximately fifty times every night.
VAW-116 aboard USS Coral SEA CVA-43
Member, Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club 1968-69
Hard Charger USS Biddle, DLG-34 here. Same time period.
I was talking to a customer the other day, he’s active duty in Norfolk, says no one lives aboard ship anymore in port.